War Quotes
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.Molly Wiest
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Bokonon
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994
On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch - Engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.A Bartlett Giamatti
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.William Tecumseh Sherman
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Hemingway
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.Halford E. Luccock
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.Michelangelo Buonarroti
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.Mark Twain
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Kelle
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace, Epistles
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.Jacobi
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.South
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.Matt Groening
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.Bernard Mannes Baruch
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.David Weatherford
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.John Gay
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.Sextus Julius Frontinus
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.Enlai Zhou
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.Oscar Wilde
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.George Bernard Shaw
